Instacast 5: Great App! Review

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Great App!Love using this app on iOS 7. Sync with my MacBook Air is super useful as well.

So long.I’ve been an Instacast user for the past year, and it’s been one of my favorite apps. However, once Instacast made the jump to iOS 7, it became an awful experience. While the app looked great, it began to freeze several times a week. I would have to shut off my device and restart to get everything working again. Unfortunately, the glitches were enough to make me ditch the app entirely and start looking for an alternative.

Sync no longer works, buggy interfaceUsed to work phenomenally. Now only works occasionally. Sync across devices (including OS X) is what sold it to me since I like to listen to podcasts on my laptop, especially since I can let my laptop download all the episodes and peer them to my iPad and iPhone quickly; but now that it’s broken it’s completely worthless.
Also a few regressions in terms of UX: skipping forward or backward isn’t obvious, “play next”and “add to up next” is confusing, and there’s no way I can see to mark something as played.
Will re-evaluate but for now I’m back to Downcast. At least until Overcast comes out.

Huge disappointmentBeen with Instacast since the very first edition - this one clearly is the worst ever. Rather than playing a playlist in sequence, it would only play one podcast from the list and then stop. Downloading podcasts in the background sometimes does not work for several days in a row. The user interface is more design than function. I would not mind that the developer asks for new money with each major update, but I surely expect additional features then rather than a truckload of new bugs.